March 27, 2017

The Jays had better add a better option in left field soon, because it’s going to get tiresome writing a post like this after every. single. time. a team cuts a player who seems like a better fit for a left field platoon with Melvin Upton than Ezequiel Carrera. And yet here we are again,…

Your usual Jim Bowden caveats apply here — perhaps more than usual, in fact — but according to the former GM and current ESPN man, free agent outfielder Ángel Pagán is going to decide at some point in the next 48 hours which team he’s going to sign a contract with. Specifically, on ESPN’s utterly pointless…

Hey! Mat Latos, everybody! Future Toronto Blue Jay Mat Latos! Current Buffalo Bison Mat Latos! (For now). Shi Davidi reports for Sportsnet that, after Latos was informed that he’s been assigned to Triple-A, he made the decision to “stay with the organization rather than utilize one of the opt outs in his minor-league contract.” Does…

Opening Day is a week away and teams across baseball are starting to make some of their final roster decisions. Normally this wouldn’t be terribly relevant to a team like the Blue Jays, but with their bullpen still very much in flux, and Steve Pearce unable to play both left field and first base simultaneously,…

The Blue Jays are getting down to their final roster cuts of the spring, as their Opening Day roster starts to really take shape. So naturally in this week’s mailbag—the third installment of my homage to Richard Griffin’s old jam at the Toronto Star—we’ve got questions about trading for Mike Trout (!), blowing up the…

A week ago in his Wilner’s 25 piece for Sportsnet, wherein he takes a weekly stab at predicting what the Jays’ 25 man roster will look like on Opening Day, Mike Wilner had Bo Schultz — the crown prince of the Turkey’s Nest! — as sneaking in to grab the seventh spot in the Jays’…